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Maxims and Reflections

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

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There are pedants who are also rascals, and they are the worst of all.

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A man does not need to have seen or experienced everything himself. But if he is to commit himself to another’s experiences and his way of putting them, let him consider that he has to do with three things—the object in question and two subjects.

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